3200 Phaethon (Record n° 18547)
Perihelion distance : 0.14 AU
Inclination to ecliptic : 22 °
Orbital period : 1.43 years
Eccentricity : 0.89
NASA/JPL elements
IAU/MPC elements
On 2017 Nov 22 20h56 UT by Nicolas Biver
(Copyright Nicolas Biver)Coma Total magnitude (m1) 14.6 Magnitude (MPC m2) 14.6 Aperture radius for m2 16 " Coma diameter 0.1 ' Coma condensation degree
(DC) 9 r (dist/Sun) 1.371 AU d (dist/Earth) 0.482 AU Right ascension 105.72917 ° Declination +36.79444 ° Instrumental configuration Config1 Instrument T407 f/D 4.3 Dobson Instrument type Newton Instrument aperture (0=naked eye) 407 mm Instrument focale length 1750 mm Instrument focale/diameter 4.3 Filter(s) None Camera Sony A7s Sensor DC Sensor size 36x24 mm2 Sensor pixels number 4240x2832 Binning 2x2 Mount Dobson Motorization No Autoguide No Exposure total time 20 s Exposure details 80x1/4s Sky transparency (naked eye max mag) 4 Seeing 4 Moon elongation 180 ° Air mass 2 Location Versailles Reference stars catalog (ast&phot) Tycho-2 Used softwares IRIS Image resize factor 0.5 Resulting picture sampling (scale) 2.0 "/pix Image processing images binnées, alignement, somme, retrait de gradient Remarks or comments Entre 2 arbres, en direction de Paris avec des lampadaires à proximité au début (SQM=18.2 à 18.4 une fois éteints) Observation submission date 2017 Nov 23 18h13m03s Observation modification date 2017 Nov 23 18h20m50s